![]() You will need to look through the original documents within the series to discover where the photographs are located. However, in some cases searches may have to be much more speculative as some series do not contain descriptions of individual photographs. Once you have established that a series contains photographs you can use the series search, and the keyword tips in section 3.2, to try finding them. There are hundreds of series that contain photographs, many of them listed in Appendix 1 of this guide and in sections 4 to 13, where the same series are organised by theme. A large number of photographs are only identified in the record series descriptions of our catalogue. Each record series has its own ‘series search’. This is another way to use our catalogue. 3.3 Use ‘series searches’ to search specific parts of the collection For more search advice, read catalogue search help. You can use the filters on the left hand side of search results pages to refine your search by department code, such as FO for Foreign Office, and date. Search results provide short descriptions and document references. A small proportion of these photographs have been digitised and you can download these direct from the catalogue (£) or from the Image Library (see above) but in most instances you will need either to visit us or pay for copies to be sent to you to see them. ‘photograph’ AND type of photograph such as ‘aerial’.‘photograph’ AND name such as ‘ Alfred Tennyson’.‘photograph’ AND key term such as ‘plantation’. ![]() To find them search our catalogue by keyword(s), using the following kinds of combinations: Several million photographs are either wholly or partly described in our catalogue. 3.2 Use our catalogue to search the whole collection by keywords If you don’t find what you are looking for, you can search the full collection in our catalogue (see 3.2). Archived film of government origin is held at the British Film Institute.Ĭharles Darwin, 1882 (catalogue reference COPY 1/57/225). The National Archives does not hold any cinematographic film. To see anything that is not available from the Image Library you will need either to visit us or pay for copies to be sent to you. The Image Library is the easiest way to get a sense of the breadth and depth of what we hold but most of our photographs are not available to view online. ![]() You can view and purchase high-quality copies of many thousands of our photographs through our Image Library. This guide will help you to find individual photographs among our vast holdings, some of them in discrete collections but many scattered more haphazardly among the documents of the scores of central government departments, past and present, that commissioned and collected them. Running into millions of individual items, these photographs have been amassed during the working lives of central government departments and cover the historical time-span of the medium itself. The National Archives holds one of the largest and most significant collections of photographs in the United Kingdom. Appendix 2: Photographic publications held in our library.Appendix 1: Alphabetical list by series of photographic material.Former British colonies and other countries Landscapes, urban scenery and geographical surveys Military establishments, hardware and transport
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